ox TEE 2IABCE. 119 had one bad fall, for, having an attack of fever at the time, I was not keeping a good look-out, and my horse went under an acacia-tree, and before I was aware I was entangled in its branches, pulled out of the saddle, and dropped into a thorn-bush, out of which, after many struggles, I was at last dragged, leaving behind many fragments of my clothes and not a little skin. Occasionally we passed small patches of cultivated land and the sites of many deserted villages. In one of the forest glades we saw a very fine giraffe, the first I had met with in Africa ; he stood quietly looking at us until we got nearly within gunshot reach of him, and then he went off with a long stride and soon vanished from view, his long legs carrying him over the ground very quickly. Mount Malacjualen was the only important mountain seen except Mount Lado, which was still in sight ; these two serve as excellent landmarks until Zanga is reached.

The next night we slept at Tambara, a small but very neat village in the midst of large dhurra and sem-sem fields. The natives were fine, well-built people ; the men were perfectly naked, and the women had only a few leaves in front and a small tail of strings behind ; not such a large bunch as is worn by the Baris or Shulis. A few of the women wore a small iron bell instead of the leaves, though I could not find out if this had any particular meaning. They had also the stone through the